Solvent smectic order parameters from solute nematic order parameters

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作者
Celebre, Giorgio [1 ]
Cinacchi, Giorgio [2 ]
De Luca, Giuseppina [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calabria, Dipartimento Chim, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
[2] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Chim, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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10.1063/1.2970074
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
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In liquid crystals, while the second and fourth rank orientational order parameters characterizing a nematic phase can be experimentally determined via several techniques, there is no straightforward experiment rendering the positional order parameters characterizing a smectic A phase. This work illustrates a novel method to estimate the positional order parameters of a smectogenic liquid crystal solvent from knowledge of the orientational order parameters of a number of solutes dissolved therein. The latter order parameters can be experimentally determined via liquid crystal NMR spectroscopy. These data can be then analyzed with a statistical-thermodynamic density functional theory, whose basic ingredient is a model for solute-solvent intermolecular interactions. Its parametrization and the subsequent fitting procedure eventually permit one to obtain the positional order parameters of the solvent besides the positional-orientational distribution function of the solutes. The method is applied to the smectogen 4,4(')-di-n-heptyl-azoxybenzene, in which the solutes 1,4-dichlorobenzene and naphthalene have been dissolved. With the help of this exploratory practical example, pros and cons of the method are pointed out and further developments prospected. (C) 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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